SB2015080503 - Input validation error in python (Alpine package)

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9365)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when accessing an HTTPS URL, do not (a) check the certificate against a trust store or verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's (b) Common Name or (c) subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html">CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation</a>

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9de648e28e7a9e3b0a5e1d74c9b050dacb9f959e
• https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=30e6eb8fa7fd4faaf222021010b41379f502a70d